The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-07-14

! ried out to sea, where the balloon de-
seconded. After being dragged ten miles
through the water they were rescued by
a yacht.
+ One of the best collieries of the Phil
adelphia & Reading railway, at Pottsville,
Pennsylvania, is on fire, and is probably
doomed to destruction, entailing loss
approaching $4,000. Three hundred
men and boys will be thrown out of en-
ployment.
T At Royal Centre, Ind, Tuesday night
W. o. Garner was awakened by some one
cropping around the room. Seeing form
at the window, he thought it was burg
lar and fred at 1t. A body fell; and when
he got light he found he had shot his
wife and that she was dead.
Late advices from Virginia City inform
us that all six miners we're found in the
old shaft $50 feet from the winze. ALI
are lying close together. The cave pre-
vented them reaching the winze. The
bodies are recognizable. Several of the
relief party we're overcome by gas.
The commission of physicians who ex-
amined Sharp says he is suffering from
complication of diseases, that he can
live but few years and may die at any
moment. The foreman and majority Of
the jurors have signed petition to Judge
Barrett to limit Sharp's punishment to a
fine of $4,000.
Vim. Holman sentenced to be hanged
at Dalton, Georgia, for the murder Of
Matilda Holman, was last week respited
by the governor at the last moment and
his sentence committed to Imprisonment
for life. Five thousand people, who had
assembled to witness the hanging, hung
the Governor in efigy.
A fire broke out at Hurley, Wis, Sat-
urday night, in the Alcazar theater, and
within an hour the entire business part
of town was in flames, while eleven per-
sons had perished in the theater. The
charred remains OF nine people have been
taken from the ruins. The loss in full
is half million dollars.
The s!Qop yacht Mystery, loaded al
most to the gunwale with women and
children, capsized when off Barren Island
and only 13 out of 40 souls composing
herpassengers and crew are known to have
been rescued. The party was composed
of mostly German families residing in
Brooklyn and Long Island City.
David Debensaude, the husband O!
Violet Cameron. the burlesque actress
has h!lmply withdrawn the charges he
made against Lord Lonsdale and the
suit for divorce based on those charges
Miss Cameron has withdrawn her counter
petition for divorce, and both cases ac-
cordingly have been dismissed.
At Spokane Falls, day before yesterday
Nancy O'Brien shot at her divorced hus
brnd while he was waiting at the station
to take an eastern train, because he hac
succeeded in obtaining custody of theil
child. They are strangers at Spokane
having recently arrived from Nebraska
The woman was arrested and the mar
got away unhurt.
A dispatch from Sterling, eastern Col
orado, says that the reports wired from
Washington that eastern Colorado wal
suffering from drouth and that home
steaders were compelled to leave thei
claims to search for food is without foun
dation. This section of country ha
lately had two and sometimes thre'
heavy rains each week, and crops ant
stock are doing we'll.
A special from Ell Paso Texas, says
In spite of military reports to the con
trary, only small fraction Of the hostil
Apaches have been captured by Genera
Miles. The remainder Of the band, mum
bering one hundred warriors, are at pres
ent encamped in valley twenty mile
, northeast Of Laguna, Santa Maria. Thei
retreat was discovered by two Ell Pas
prospectors> who were attacked and bot
shot. A number of other outrages wer
committed, and the whole section Q
country is in state Of excitement.
> The steamship Mariposa, which reache
San Francisco last week, having touche
at the Hawaiian Islands, brings informa
tion that the expected revolution in tn
Hawaiian kingdom has occurred. Th
population organized and demanded th
= downfall of the ministry or the abdica
ton of the king. The residents of Hone
lulu and the surrounding country hav
, assumed the police powers of the govern
t ment. The volunteer military forces {
: the government are joining with then
. As result the Gibson ministry has falle
:. and cabinet named by the people, head
r ed by William NJ. Green, has been az
: pointed. King Kalakua is permitted t
!. remain on the throne, although diveste